The Talking Clock: Enough is enough: Now it's naked body scanners... for the high street

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Saturday, 9 January 2010

Enough is enough: Now it's naked body scanners... for the high street

We kid you not. A report out of the Netherlands states that Dutch police are developing naked body scanners that will be portable enough to use on the high street.

The 'revelation' comes hot on the heels of news that airports across the world are about to start rolling out scanners which produce a negative image of the subject of the scan... in the nude.

Their roll-out comes miraculously soon after some idiot allegedly had explosives in his knickers aboard a flight into America on Christmas Day.

Already, some websites have inverted the images from the airport devices using everyday photo editing software and demonstrated how they actually do produce naked photographs.

While naked rambler Steve Gough has languished in Scottish prisons for four years for nothing more than wanting to walk around naked, the new device in development will allow those who control the public to view naked images of groups of people, even from a distance.

And we've not made a single word of this up.

Of course, you may think that it's the preserve of the people of Holland to worry about this development.

But given our Government's track record on civil liberties, you can guarantee that we, the people of Britain will have this technology inflicted upon us as soon as it becomes available.

Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?

We really do live in sinister times.

This blogger has somewhat naturist tendencies and, if they do bring this technology onto British streets, we're just gonna walk around naked all the time and everywhere. After all, if the authorities are going to look at us naked anyway, we may as well be naked.

Meanwhile, do make sure you keep on voting for the same old Labour, Conservative and Lib Dem parties, won't you?

See also: The Guardian - 'New scanners break child porn laws'

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